Job summary
- Main area
- Trust wide
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Mon- 16:00-21:00, Tues- 16:00-21:00, Wed- 16:00-2100, Thurs- 16:00-21:00, Sat – 08:00-18:00)
- Job ref
- 190-9099-DIR-S
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £24,465 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/11/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 18/11/2025
Employer heading
Clerical Officer/Receptionist
NHS AfC: Band 2
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
The Directorate of Gastroenterology is seeking to recruit an Endoscopy Administrative clerical officer for the GRaDE care Group at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to come and join our team in the Endoscopy Suites based in the Huntsman Building/Coleridge House at the Northern General Hospital.
The successful candidate will need to be an excellent team player and able to work using their own initiative. We are looking to appoint a motivated individual who must have excellent communication and organisational skills.
This dynamic and interesting role will involve working within our existing multidisciplinary supportive team, providing essential day to day administrative service for Endoscopy services.
Main duties of the job
Are you passionate about making a difference to the hospital and patient experience by providing a comprehensive clerical / reception service to the Trust? Do you have a strong sense of responsibility for your own actions, love to be organised and disciplined and have a high level of attention to detail and accuracy? Do you take pride in all that you do and love to provide high levels of customer service?
If your answer to these questions is yes then a clerical officer / receptionist role within Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust may be the right position for you.
Great Clerical Officers / Receptionists in the NHS are focused on the ultimate outcome of quality hospital and patient care and have high standards when it comes to liaising with any person the service comes into contact with. They thrive on the busy nature of the role and remain positive, dedicated and determined to produce quality work for themselves and the team around them.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Please see the attached documents to this vacancy which gives you more detail on why you should come and work for us.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- GCSE at Grade C/4 in English and Maths (or equivalent qualifications) or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- NVQ Level II in Business Administration / Customer Service / IT
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within an office environment
- Experience of working in a public facing role
Desirable criteria
- Relevant experience within the NHS
Further Training
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of / experience of using information and/or customer service systems.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages including Outlook, Excel and Word.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience Infoflex / 59R Software
- Previous experience of PAS / Infoflex / SystmOne (area specific software)
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of data protection issues and the ability to maintain confidentiality
- Excellent communication skills, with ability to deal with staff at all levels.
- Displays use of initiative with effective organisational skill
- Ability to prioritise and work to strict/conflicting deadlines
- On-going commitment to personal development
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Martin Camm
- Job title
- Endoscopy Service coordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 3052208
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